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As protests and political tensions in Israel reach large-scale proportions, the Israel Police is, once again, back in the limelight, acting as the country’s emergency room. The protests are just the latest challenge to the police’s ability to juggle its multiple and unusual responsibilities—a challenge that must be answered by the formation of an Israeli national guard.

The share of non-enlisting men aged 18-20 has doubled over the past 30 years, from 16.6% to 30% of an annual intake of conscripts, according to the Institute for National Security Studies. Among women, 40% don’t enlist. Among men, half of the non-enlisting are ultra-Orthodox, while 12% of new conscripts are exempted due to psychological reasons, nearly three times their share...

The air force officers considered it a threat that would “destroy Israel’s democracy,” and end the “co-existence of the Israeli community.” “We are on a very slippery slope of the politicization process of civil-military relations or the military, generally speaking,” said the former Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Kobi Michael.

These structural upheavals are coming in the form of “concessions” to far-right groups due to Netanyahu’s political constraints and “caused the army to react” says Yoram Schweitzer, a former member of the Israeli intelligence community who now heads the Program on Terrorism and Low-Intensity Conflict at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

Former IDF intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. (res.) Tamir Hayman unloaded against Noam Party leader Avi Maoz on Thursday regarding a request he made to the military to close up the office of Gender Advisor, which assists with improving the work environment for women and LGBTQ+ personnel. “I cannot imagine the intelligence wing without women and without the LGBT community...

"We are on a very slippery slope of the politicization process of civil-military relations or the military, generally speaking,” observes Professor Kobi Michael, the former Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, and now a senior research fellow at the Institute of National Strategic Studies. Michael says the process was begun by politicians, citing the...

The challenge the defense establishment is currently facing is how to stop the emerging wave of terrorism in its tracks without expanding the arena to include other "players," who may not be gung ho to join the fray but would also prefer not to be left on the sidelines. The series of terrorist attacks in recent weeks has fostered an atmosphere that fuels it further in the...

Researchers from Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) wrote in a report published in January, "The violent clashes that erupted between Jews and Arabs with a nationalist-religious background in April-May 2021, did not reflect a popular uprising against authority and the state but mainly frustration by individuals and groups about their civil situation as...

La resiliencia nacional, la capacidad de los pueblos de lidiar debidamente con los desafíos que se le presentan , es un elemento clave en situación de guerra y conflicto , así como en las situaciones de emergencia creadas por catástrofes naturales. El Dr. Meir Elran del Instituto de Estudios de Seguridad Nacional en Tel Aviv se ha especializado precisamente en estos temas:...

In its “Strategic Survey for Israel 2022,” released Monday, Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) said Iran has made its greatest strides toward building a nuclear bomb since the U.S. withdrew from the agreement. For Iran, said INSS, "This progress reinforces the temptation not to return to the nuclear agreement absent considerable rewards, and...